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There have been quite a few Kanye West headlines lately, thanks to his many tweets, and the rapper sparked even more conversation when he dropped a new track on Friday. Early in the day, he announced on Twitter that he'd be releasing a song, saying, "I'm going to drop a song with a verse that will bring Ebro the closure he's been seeking . . . it's called Lift Yourself." Kanye was referring to Ebro Darden of Hot 97, the radio host who recently discussed his conversation with Kanye about Donald Trump [2], which was followed by several Trump-related tweets [3] on Kanye's end.
I'm going to drop a song with a verse that will bring Ebro the closure he's been seeking
The bars 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's called Lift Yourself— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 27, 2018 [4]
Lift Yourself https://t.co/shjFIROujA [5]
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 28, 2018 [6]
On Friday night, Kanye tweeted a link to his website [7], which features a screenshot of a message containing the song file. If you click on it, you can hear the track, which ends with an . . . interesting verse. Some choice "Lift Yourself" lyrics [8]: "Poopy-di scoop / Scoop-didy-whoop / Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop." It's safe to say people had some feelings about it — including Ebro, who called him "#TrollYeWest" and said, "It's all fun and games."
Woop-diddy-scoop.... #bars [9] @kanyewest [10]
— OldMan Ebro (@oldmanebro) April 28, 2018 [11]
We already knew you was #TrollYeWest [12]
— OldMan Ebro (@oldmanebro) April 28, 2018 [13]
It's all fun & games.
Woop-diddy-scoop-diddy...#SamboFlow [14]— OldMan Ebro (@oldmanebro) April 28, 2018 [15]
On Twitter, there were mixed feelings about Kanye trolling people, and while some wondered whether there might be more meaning to the track, others decided they're actually pretty into it.
pic.twitter.com/Notkm4Hori [16]
— Fidel Perez (@fiidle) April 28, 2018 [17]
me: only deep and meaningful songs get to me
kanye in lift yourself: woop dee dee scoop poop
me: pic.twitter.com/HW4rdG0NzU [18]— ✨ (@lmacshap) April 28, 2018 [19]
Yoooo........ pic.twitter.com/6GEV2FhV9K [20]
— Colm E'Muva (@colmemuva) April 28, 2018 [21]
Kanye's song "Lift Yourself" reminds of back in the day, when you got catfished tryna download a new song off Limewire.
— 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕝𝕪𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕖 (@nuffsaidNY) April 28, 2018 [22]
pic.twitter.com/V6K8ZDq5pm [23]
— General Tso (@ChrisMacKenzie_) April 28, 2018 [24]
"Lift Yourself" ghost written by Saint West
— STONE ✞ (@BIGHOMIESTONE) April 28, 2018 [25]